Westminster · W9 · Handyman
Handyman in Maida Vale, W9
Handyman in Maida Vale, W9, in Westminster: red-brick mansion flats with cage lifts, stucco villas and canal-side houseboats, so the walls here are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, with metal stud partitions between rooms. The list we are booked for most is TV mounting and flat-pack assembly on the day the keys are handed over, and the failure we are called back to fix is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs.
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £1m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- £55 an hour, £190 a half day — fixed price for the whole list
- Dot-and-dab plasterboard here, so the fixings are chosen for the wall, not pulled from a pack
- Stud, pipe and cable scan before the first hole, every visit
- Westminster City Council permits, ULEZ and packaging removal already inside the price
The service, locally
Handyman work in Maida Vale
- Per hour, one-hour minimum
- £55Per hour, one-hour minimum
- Maida Vale homes are flats
- 95%Maida Vale homes are flats
- Fixed-price jobs
- 14Fixed-price jobs
- Households in Maida Vale
- 3,623Households in Maida Vale
Instant estimate
Price your Maida Vale job list
Estimated for Maida Vale W9
£135 – £375
Slot needed: Half day
- Flat-pack assembly
- £55 – £190
- TV mounting
- £85 – £165
- One-visit saving
- −£25
- Lath, dot-and-dab or concrete fixings
- from £20
£55 minimum charge per visit. Prices include VAT, the van, fixings from our own stock and taking the packaging away. Nothing is added on the day without your written agreement first. You have told us the walls are lath, dot-and-dab or concrete, so we have allowed for the correct anchors and the extra scanning time that goes with them.
How it works
How a Maida Vale visit works
- Photos and a listPhotos of each wall and a list of jobs get one fixed written price for Maida Vale W9 the same working day.
- We scan, then drillNothing is drilled blind: we scan, mark, protect the floor and choose for dot-and-dab plasterboard.
- Signed off with youEvery fixing load-tested, packaging taken away, and a walk-round with you before we leave.
- Get my price
Walls and fixings
What is behind the plaster in Maida Vale
Most likely here
Dot-and-dab plasterboard — 1990s onward new builds and conversions
Long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor. Realistic load: 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone. What goes wrong: short screws that only grip the board, then lever it off the dabs.
Lath and plaster
Pre-1930 terraces and mansion blocks
- Fixing
- Locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws
- Safe load
- Up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself
- What pulls out
- A plasterboard plug in lime plaster crumbles the key and drops the whole panel
Solid London stock brick
Victorian and Edwardian party and external walls
- Fixing
- 7 mm hammer-drilled hole into the brick body, nylon plug or resin anchor
- Safe load
- 40 kg-plus per fixing when anchored into brick, not mortar
- What pulls out
- Fixing into soft lime mortar joints, which spin out under load
Dot-and-dab plasterboard
1990s onward new builds and conversions
- Fixing
- Long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor
- Safe load
- 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone
- What pulls out
- Short screws that only grip the board, then lever it off the dabs
Timber or metal stud partition
Flat conversions and 1960s-onward internal walls
- Fixing
- Stud detector, then fix into the upright; noggins added where the stud misses
- Safe load
- 35 kg into timber, 15 kg into metal stud with a toggle
- What pulls out
- Two of four bracket holes on the stud and two in fresh air
Precast concrete and blockwork
Post-war estates and podium blocks
- Fixing
- SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt
- Safe load
- 50 kg-plus per fixing
- What pulls out
- Hitting reinforcement or a buried conduit without a scan first
Insulated dry lining
Retrofitted period homes and low-energy refurbishments
- Fixing
- Insulation-rated frame fixings that reach the masonry beyond the board and foam
- Safe load
- 25 kg, spread across four points
- What pulls out
- Compressing the insulation so the fixing slowly works loose
Why Hello Services
Why Hello Services in Maida Vale
Photographed and load-tested
Each fixing tested and documented, so landlords and agents get evidence without asking in Maida Vale.
We scan before we drill
Stud, pipe and cable detector on every Maida Vale wall before the first hole — not after the leak across W9, with 17% social-rented stock nearby.
One visit, one fixed price
Your whole W9 list quoted in writing the same working day, with no doorstep re-quote on the Maida Vale rounds.
The right anchor for the wall
We carry the lot, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs is what a rushed job leaves behind on this side of Westminster — and 95% of homes here being flats, with 48% of W9 homes being privately rented.
Fixed prices
Handyman prices in Maida Vale
| Job | From | To | Time on site | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat-pack assembly | £55 | £190 | 1–4 hrs | Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall |
| TV mounting | £85 | £165 | 1–2 hrs | Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked |
| Shelves and floating units | £65 | £180 | 1–3 hrs | Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line |
| Curtain poles and blinds | £60 | £150 | 1–3 hrs | Poles, tracks and blinds fixed to timber, brick or reinforced plasterboard |
| Mirrors, art and heavy hanging | £55 | £130 | 1–2 hrs | Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall |
| Locks, handles and door furniture | £70 | £160 | 1–2 hrs | Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like |
Flat-pack assembly
£55 – £190
1–4 hrs
Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall
TV mounting
£85 – £165
1–2 hrs
Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked
Shelves and floating units
£65 – £180
1–3 hrs
Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line
Curtain poles and blinds
£60 – £150
1–3 hrs
Poles, tracks and blinds fixed to timber, brick or reinforced plasterboard
Mirrors, art and heavy hanging
£55 – £130
1–2 hrs
Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall
Locks, handles and door furniture
£70 – £160
1–2 hrs
Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like
Maida Vale W9 books this 6-job shortlist more than anything else, because 95% of homes here are flats. All 14 fixed prices sit on the shared reference page.
£55 minimum charge per visit. Prices include VAT, the van, fixings from our own stock and taking the packaging away. Nothing is added on the day without your written agreement first. Full price list, fixings matrix and scope policy.
Rates and local costs
Hourly, half day or full day in Maida Vale
Hourly rate
£55
per hour, one-hour minimum
Best for one or two small jobs — a shelf, a leaking tap washer, a sticking door.
Half day
£190
up to 4 hours
The most-booked slot in London: three to six jobs from one list, one visit, one price.
Full day
£340
up to 8 hours
A snag list, a whole-flat furniture build, or a move-in day of fixings and fittings.
Same-day call-out
£95
first hour, then hourly
Lock, leak, door or safety job that cannot wait for a booked slot.
- Parking and permits
- Westminster City Council visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Part of Westminster sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ. Our vans are compliant, so ULEZ and the Congestion Charge never appear on your invoice.
- Access and building rules
- Concierge sign-in, goods-lift booking and out-of-hours windows are handled before the visit, so the clock starts when the work does, not in reception.
Screws, plugs, resin anchors, hollow-wall fixings, silicone and filler come out of the van and are inside the price. Anything bought for you — a replacement tap, a door closer, a specific bracket — is charged at cost with the receipt attached to your invoice.
Scope
What is included in Maida Vale
Included in every visit
- One vetted fitter for the whole Maida Vale W9 list, with ladders, tools and sheets already in the van.
- Fixings matched to dot-and-dab plasterboard — Long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor included — rather than whatever came in the flat-pack box.
- Scanning, levelling and load-testing on every hole — plus packaging and old fittings taken away.
- mansion blocks with small lifts and porters, resident bays all week and narrow canal-side roads — we plan the Maida Vale W9 arrival around it and settle permits with Westminster City Council ourselves.
Not included — and why
- Gas work of any kind: that is Gas Safe registered work, and we say so before you book, not on the day.
- New circuits or consumer units, which are notifiable under Part P and need a registered electrician.
- Load-bearing or structural changes, which need building control approval from Westminster City Council first.
- Any fixing that would disturb possible asbestos, which is surveyed first as a matter of policy.
The full scope policy, the complete fixings matrix and every fixed price sit on one page: handyman reference.
Coverage
Handyman work around Maida Vale
Nearby areas we also cover
- Handyman in PaddingtonW2W2
- Handyman in BayswaterW2 · Kensington and ChelseaW2
- Handyman in St John's WoodNW8NW8
- Handyman in Westbourne ParkW10 · Kensington and ChelseaW10
- Handyman in Ladbroke GroveW10 · Kensington and ChelseaW10
- Handyman in North KensingtonW10 · Kensington and ChelseaW10
- Handyman in Queen's ParkNW6 · BrentNW6
- Handyman in KilburnNW6 · CamdenNW6
Guides
Read before you book
Hiring a handyman in the UK: the complete guide
Scope, legal limits, 2026 prices, vetting questions, wall fixings and a job-list method that gets more done in one visit.
18 min read
Handyman prices in London: what jobs actually cost in 2026
Hourly, half-day and fixed job prices, with the London extras that quietly add to a quote.
9 min read
What a handyman can and cannot legally do in the UK
The real line between handyman work and jobs that need a registered electrician, gas or structural trade.
7 min read
Wall fixings guide: which anchor holds in which London wall
The fixing that actually holds in each London wall type, and the realistic load it will take.
8 min read
Related services
Other work we do in Maida Vale
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Maida Vale flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A W9 reset after the drilling, sanding and flat-pack dust has settled.
After builders cleaning
Snag list finished by us, then the builders' dust taken out of the Maida Vale flat.
Moving services
Furniture dismantled in W9, moved, then rebuilt and re-anchored the same day.
House removals
A full Maida Vale move where the beds and wardrobes come apart and go back together properly.
House clearance
Old furniture and broken fittings taken away from W9 before the new ones go up.
About the area
Maida Vale in context
Wide tree-lined avenues of Edwardian mansion blocks above the Regent's Canal at Little Venice. Red-brick mansion flats with cage lifts, stucco villas and canal-side houseboats, which is why W9 work is dominated by dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork. Little Venice is the landmark most customers navigate by.
Maida Vale reads as wide tree-lined avenues of Edwardian mansion blocks above the Regent's Canal at Little Venice, and the walls follow the stock. Red-brick mansion flats with cage lifts, stucco villas and canal-side houseboats. That puts dot-and-dab plasterboard behind most fixings we make in W9. That substrate wants long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor; anything lighter is a call-back, and even done properly the sensible limit is 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone.
Tenure shapes the list too: 48% of homes here are privately rented and 34% owner-occupied, so we move between check-out make-good in W9 lets and long-planned improvements in the same week. Mansion blocks with small lifts and porters, resident bays all week and narrow canal-side roads. Nearest arrival point for the team is Maida Vale (Bakerloo), and part of Westminster sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ — none of it added to your invoice on the day.
- 3,623 households in Maida Vale, 95% of them flats — the ratio that decides lift, stairs and drilling noise windows
- Default fixing for Maida Vale: long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor, load-tested to 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone
- Van access and parking: mansion blocks with small lifts and porters, resident bays all week and narrow canal-side roads
- We work the whole of W9, including everything within walking distance of Little Venice
Where Maida Vale sits in our coverage
Maida Vale sits inside the coverage published on our handyman work in Westminster page, which sits under handyman work across London. The same crew works the adjoining postcodes too — handyman work in Paddington W2 (0.7 miles), handyman work in St John's Wood NW8 (0.9 miles), handyman work in Westbourne Park W10 (1.0 miles), handyman work in Queen's Park NW6 (1.2 miles) and handyman work in Kilburn NW6 (1.2 miles). If your address sits on the boundary, book the closest page — the price and the crew are the same. For every trade we run at this postcode, see all services in Maida Vale.
Most booked alongside this in Maida Vale
Maida Vale W9 at a glance
- Area
- Maida Vale, Westminster
- Postcodes served
- W9
- Nearest station
- Maida Vale (Bakerloo)
- Dominant wall construction
- dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, with metal stud partitions between rooms
- Fixing we use most
- Long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor
- Realistic load
- 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone
- Most-booked list
- TV mounting and flat-pack assembly on the day the keys are handed over
- Watch out for
- short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs
- Charging zones
- Part of Westminster sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ
- Residents (Maida Vale)
- 7,876
- Households (Maida Vale)
- 3,623
- Typical visit
- Half a day in W9
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Maida Vale (E02000965) — the published geography that covers Maida Vale, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Maida Vale W9 handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 for a half day and £340 for a full day in W9 around Maida Vale (Bakerloo), with this being Westminster City Council territory. Fixed-price jobs start at £55 — flat-pack from £55, TV mounting from £85, shelving from £65 in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 95% of homes here being flats. Send the list and we confirm one written figure for Maida Vale (W9) addresses.
Yes. Locally that usually means dot-and-dab plasterboard — long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind in Maida Vale — and Westminster parking rules in play, with 5% of Maida Vale homes being houses, or a spread-load anchor, holding around 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone. The risk we guard against here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on this side of Westminster, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood. Every wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables before the first hole in this 95% flats neighbourhood.
That is how we prefer to work in Maida Vale. Three or more jobs in one half-day slot means one set-up, one parking arrangement and one price of £190 rather than three separate call-outs on Westminster bookings, with 34% owner-occupation locally. Photos of each W9 wall let us sequence the list so the noisy drilling is done in one block in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Maida Vale (Bakerloo).
Swapping an existing socket face, switch or light fitting in Maida Vale is fine on this side of Westminster, with 34% owner-occupation locally, and it is tested before we leave. New circuits, consumer units and anything notifiable under Part P, no in this 95% flats neighbourhood. Gas work of any kind is Gas Safe registered work and we will not touch it — we will tell you who should around Maida Vale (Bakerloo), with 5% of Maida Vale homes being houses.
Mansion blocks with small lifts and porters, resident bays all week and narrow canal-side roads on Westminster bookings. Westminster City Council visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged and paid for by us and sit inside the quoted price in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 48% of W9 homes being privately rented. Concierge sign-in and goods-lift booking are done before the visit for Maida Vale (W9) addresses, with 17% social-rented stock nearby, so the clock starts when the work does.
Standard screws, plugs, resin and hollow-wall anchors, silicone and filler come out of the van and are already in the price in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 95% of homes here being flats. Loading for dot-and-dab plasterboard in advance is why a W9 visit rarely needs a mid-job supply run on Westminster bookings, with this being Westminster City Council territory. If you want a specific part supplied, we buy it at cost and show you the receipt; there is no mark-up across W9, with 5% of Maida Vale homes being houses.
Yes. Every area in Westminster has its own page on Westminster bookings, and we cross borough boundaries constantly. If your address sits on the edge of W9, book the nearest page and we will confirm the same fixed price in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 34% owner-occupation locally.
Source: ONS Census 2021, borough totals via Nomis (table TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003). Figures describe the whole borough, the smallest area ONS publishes every one of these tables for.
Book a handyman in Maida Vale W9
Send your job list and a photo of each wall for a fixed written price the same working day. Fixings, permits and taking the packaging away are already in the figure.
Handyman Services reviews from Greater London customers
4.5 ★ from 3,131 Trustpilot reviewsSulltan is the best handyman in London. He is very reliable and professional. I highly recommend.
Quick assembly of a big gas bbq . Friendly service too
Sulltan is the best handyman in London , Highly recommend ......
Read all 3 Handyman Services reviews from Greater London customers →
Quoted verbatim from reviews customers left on our public Google and Trustpilot profiles. Nothing is edited, shortened beyond the link above, or written by us.